Color patterns seen in fish and other animals evolved to serve various purposes. Lagunatic Photo/iStock via Getty Images Plus A thought experiment can help visualize the challenge of achieving ...

In our newly published research in Science Advances, my student Ben Alessio and I propose a potential mechanism explaining how these distinctive patterns form—that could potentially be applied to ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Patterns on animal skin, such as zebra stripes and poison frog color patches, serve various biological functions, including temperature ...

Biophysicists figure out how bacteria form robust patterns despite changing environmental conditions and fluctuating protein concentrations. Biological patterns are essential for many processes of ...

LMU physicists have shown how fluid flows influence the formation of complex patterns. The formation of patterns is a universal phenomenon that underlies fundamental processes in biology. An example ...

Learn how different animals get their stripes. Would you believe the answer is… math? This is the story of a WWII wartime codebreaker and his quest to decode nature’s most beautiful patterns. Alan ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

This population-based study shows that shared and pattern-specific blood biomarkers reflect biological vulnerability ...

You probably never thought twice about the way you breathe, assuming it’s just another basic biological function that everyone does pretty much the same way. Turns out, you couldn’t be more wrong.

Ankur Gupta receives funding from NSF (CBET - 2238412) and ACS Petroleum Research Fund (65836 - DNI9). A thought experiment can help visualize the challenge of achieving distinctive color patterns.